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...Washington spotted a different Jupiter-size world circling 55 Cancri in a close-up orbit just 10 million miles from the solar fires--closer than little Mercury orbits our own sun. All told, astronomers have found about 90 big planets circling many other stars, either clinging close to their parent's skirt or whipping in and out in irregular, slingshot-like orbits--including what seems to be another planet closely orbiting 55 Cancri...
Cruise not only brought the story to Spielberg but also tapped into his most harrowing fears as a parent. The father of an adopted son, 7, and daughter, 9, Cruise said Anderton should have a son who was missing. "Tom came up with that to give the character complicated emotional baggage," says Spielberg, who confesses that he "had much more of a popcorn movie in mind until I began to think about the ramifications of arresting people without due process." The director says it was his friend Doris Kearns Goodwin, the historian, who alerted him to the constitutional problems...
Families everywhere will recognize the dilemma. How can children help and protect their parents yet respect their autonomy? What if the parents resist help when the children think they are in trouble? How do the children know when to step in, when to step back? The answers involve a renegotiation of parent-child roles that's happening in almost every family, especially with today's elders living longer than the generation before them...
Show them balanced behavior by separating wants from needs. One parent the Gallos worked with watched her daughter run down the Barbie aisle at Toys "R" Us and insist she "needed" a purple purse for her doll. The mother paused and said, "Your Barbie already has a pink purse. Do you think she needs a purple one too?" On her own, the little girl decided...
DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...